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Social media and the rise of fantasy sports

Sprout Social

million in 2003. So in early 2003, we’ve got over 15 million people playing fantasy sports online. The following year, Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook. With the surge in social media engagement came a surge in fantasy sports. One of the best ways to increase social media engagement is to ask a question.

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Why More Members, Money, and Ads Don’t Always Mean More Success: A B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide

Webbiquity SMM

So the question is–are there things that today’s B2B marketers can learn from history, specifically, the tremendous success of Facebook and the rise, fall and possible resurrection of Myspace? From its founding, Myspace took off like a rocket ship while Facebook had a much slower ascension from launch. Facebook has never been boring.

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A Pinteresting Story

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That Facebook IPO. With rumors swirling of Facebook 's pending IPO (and the billions at play that go along with it), it does seem like the most opportune time for the online social networking behemoth to go public. engagement. or that any other competitors are waiting in the wings. business column. chad hurley. conversation.

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How to Create a Thriving B2B Advocacy Community

Convince & Convert

jtroyer Tweet This Giving Back to Your Top Influencers Back in 2003, VMware ‘s online community was centered around a forum. This one page aggregates all of the data from Twitter, Facebook, blogs, the community forums, and any other place online where VMware chatter might be going on.

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Social Success Comes from Individuality

Convince & Convert

His first post on Facebook appealed to his friends asking for help, and it soon became clear that social media was a great way to find information. Bob’s advice to budding social pros is to always engage individually. Bob found very little resistance to his efforts.

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Linking Up on LinkedIn

Idaconcpts

Launched in 2003, LinkedIn is a business-related social networking site. Primarily, remember that groups on LinkedIn, much like on Facebook or other social networking sites, thrive off of discussion. Lastly, promote your group outside of LinkedIn, through Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc. [Tina Safi blogs weekly at [link].

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Are Blog Comments Dead? | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

Written on July 30, 2010 by Justin Levy in blog , community , facebook , interactions , social media , twitter 23 Comments - Leave a comment! As engagement and sharing on Twitter, Facebook and other social tools continues to increase, many bloggers are noticing a sharp decrease in comments on their blogs. Thomas I like comments.

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